First Bible Baptist Church

Challenge

Develop a master plan that guides a church’s expansion, within height and style guidelines, to support its focus areas of worship, education and athletics.

Process

The design team worked with First Bible Baptist Church leaders to review the church’s existing master plan and program, create a new plan and identify an initial phase of construction.

Solution

The design concept features three separate entries, based on church’s three focus programming areas (worship, education and athletics), which define prominent circulation routes and sightlines. They are unified visually from the exterior and spatially within the building by a connecting “spine.” Spaces included in the master plan program include worship, music/performing arts, education, administration and indoor/outdoor athletics.